It comes from play writing advice attributed to Anton Chekhov: ‘If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.’ In other words, everything that is introduced in a story needs to have a function.
It comes from play writing advice attributed to Anton Chekhov: ‘If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.’ In other words, everything that is introduced in a story needs to have a function.